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Cleve Central area. Progress and final reports to licence expiry for the period 7/6/1979 to 11/10/1985.
Exploration for Broken Hill or Aggeneys type Proterozoic stratiform base metal massive sulphides within the Hutchison Group in the Mount Shannan area, north of Cleve, has included the acquisition, processing and interpretation of airborne magnetic,...-
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Partridge Range (part of the Gibraltar Joint Venture Project). Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 4/3/1997 to 3/12/2008.
Exploration of an area with poor basement outcrop, located approximately 45 km north-east of Tarcoola, primarily sought possible fault or breccia-hosted mesothermal gold +/- base metal mineralisation in likely multiphase Mesoproterozoic felsic...-
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Published: 12 Aug 1908
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Data release [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Lake Gilles. Annual reports submitted until the commencement of the Eurilla JV Project licences' joint reporting, for the period 30/1/2007 to 29/1/2010.
A sparsely drill-tested area centred about 10 km west of Lake Gilles is being explored for a variety of buried, possibly economic basement-hosted polymetallic mineralisation occurrences, including deposits of Menninnie Dam style Pb-Zn-Ag (Cu-Au),...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1910
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Lake Gilles. Progress reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/5/1969 to 18/5/1970.
Exploration for possible economic hypogene base metal sulphide deposits associated with poorly exposed iron-rich linear outcrops, overlying faulted Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic basement which is obscured by extensive Cainozoic sedimentary cover rocks...-
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Published: 01 Apr 1970
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Koppio. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 6/1/1995 to 7/4/1997.
Geochemical sampling of ferruginous lag, stream sediments, BLEG soils, and rock chips, targeted possible Thompson Belt - type nickel-copper and precious metal mineralisation hosted by Lower Proterozoic Hutchison Group metasediments in an area 40 km...-
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Roopena and Iron Knob. Joint progress reports, joint annual reports and final report to licences' joint full surrender, for the period 22/4/1992 to 23/2/2000.
Exploration for Mount Isa style, Fe-oxide associated Cu-Au mineralisation has targeted Whyalla Group metasediments and associated Hiltaba Suite granitic intrusions within a 110 km long x 15 km wide, north - south aligned corridor situated west of...-
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Menninnie Dam (part of the Fleurieu - Menninnie Dam Exploration Joint Venture Project). Combined annual report for the 5-year period 24/9/2005 to 26/10/2010, plus annual reports for the period 27/10/2010 to 26/10/2012.
During the 5-year period 2005-2010, intensified exploration undertaken at Menninnie Dam was focussed on the discovery and delineation of structurally controlled hydrothermal Pb-Zn-Ag mineralisation. Carbonate-rich Hutchison Group metasediments forming...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Morgans (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports for the period 17/1/2012 to 16/1/2019.
An area of mainly covered bedrock consisting of two separate sub-blocks bordering the south-eastern Gawler Ranges, which is considered prospective for finding buried hypogene IOCG mineralisation and possible stratiform and metamorphic base metals in a...-
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Published: 21 Mar 1918
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PACE Discovery Drilling (drilling partnerships with DSD and industry): Year 8 partnership DPY8-31 - Peterlumbo Hill area, Eyre Peninsula, skarn and/or porphyry type Mesoproterozoic epithermal Cu-Au and Ag-base metal prospects. Drilling final report.
Investigator Resources (IVR) applied on 30/1/2015 to participate in the PACE Initiative Year 8 (2015) collaborative drilling grant program between industry and government being administered by DSD. The application for subsidy funds submitted by IVR...-
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Published: 20 Jan 1916
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Eyre Peninsula Pb-Zn data package.
Numerous Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag mines and prospects, including the promising Menninnie Dam prospect located 80 km north of Kimba, occur within graphitic, calcareous and psammo-pelitic metasediments of the Palaeoproterozoic (ca 1900-1850 Ma) Hutchison Group on...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1991
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SADME/Amdel Project 1/1/209 : [petrographic] comparison of some Archaean and Proterozoic iron formations in SA. Progress reports 1 to 4, for the period December 1977 to July 1979.
A project to compare Gawler Craton iron formations of unknown age with those of known Archaean age (from geochronology) and with the Proterozoic, Lake Superior - type Middleback Range iron deposits has concentrated on characterising each formation by...-
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Published: 30 Jul 1979
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Gibraltar Rocks. Annual reports and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 30/4/2001 to 24/11/2008.
Exploration of an area with poor basement outcrop located approximately 40 km north of Tarcoola, primarily sought possible fault or breccia-hosted mesothermal gold +/- base metal mineralisation in likely multiphase Mesoproterozoic felsic volcanic and...-
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Published: 14 Aug 1908
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Middlecamp Hills. Annual reports for the period 30/6/2009 to 29/6/2019.
Two small areas have been taken up in the Cleve Uplands district to explore structurally interesting portions of the Lower and Upper Middleback Jaspilite stratigraphic units for possible economic buried copper, gold, manganese and iron ore...-
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Published: 06 Aug 1918
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Kimba Gap, Ironstone Hut, Ironstone Hill, Stony Hill, Gilles Downs and Minbrie areas (the Northern Eyre Peninsula Project). Joint annual reports for the period 2/12/2005 to 31/1/2013.
Exploration for possible economic occurrences of magnetite and/or haematite iron ore formed in concealed Proterozoic basement to the west of the Middleback Range is being carried out by Northern Eyre Peninsula Project (NEPP) joint venturer Centrex...-
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Carpie Puntha and Peterlumbo (part of the Wilcherry Hill Joint Venture Project). Data release at the third renewal / partial relinquishment of the latter licence : progress and annual reports for the period 14/2/1989 to 30/8/2003. [Index Part 2 of 2].
Abstract continued : During January-February 1993, five traverses spaced 800 m apart of RAB drillholes put in 50 m apart (57 vertical holes for a total penetration of 2688 m) were completed at Death Adder prospect by Aberfoyle Resources to appraise...-
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Published: 16 Oct 1903
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Data release - as updated : Kooralla (part of the Cowell JV Project). Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/9/2006 to 23/10/2017.
A small area centred about 15 km east of Cowell was taken up to explore the inferred 10 km long strike continuation of the banded iron formation horizon that hosts the Middleback South haematite and magnetite deposits currently being mined by OneSteel...-
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Published: 13 Mar 1918
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Murninnie. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 19/4/2006 to 14/11/2013.
During August 2006, Australasia Gold acquired a 45% interest in the historic abandoned Murninnie copper mine (Private Mine 156) and a surrounding small exploration licence (EL 3542), which are located ~30 km south-southwest of Whyalla. In July 2007,...-
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Published: 13 Oct 1914
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Data release - as updated : Moonabie (part of the East Eyre Peninsula Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 1/5/2006 to 13/3/2017.
A licence consisting of three separate sub-blocks that are centred approximately 60 km WSW of Whyalla is being explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation plus precious and base metals, in a structurally complex epithermal and...-
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Published: 29 Apr 1917
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Aroha. Progress reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/5/1980 to 26/5/1982.
As part of Esso's continued exploration programme for buried Late Proterozoic stratiform uranium deposits in the Uno - Corunna area, detailed geochemical, petrological, thermoluminescence and lead isotope studies were performed on samples obtained by...-
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RB 2013/00014 IOCG-style mineralisation in the central eastern Gawler Craton, SA; characterisation of alteration, geochemical associations and exploration vectors.
While South Australia is well known as having within its borders major iron oxide - associated copper-gold (IOCG) deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill, Carrapateena and Hillside, there has until now been a lack of publically accessible...-
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Published: 01 Oct 2013
